Dundurn Parish Church (Church Of Scotland), St Fillans

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 04/05/2006 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Parish Comrie National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NN 69423 24179 Coordinates 269423, 724179 — Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Planning Authority Dundurn Parish Church is a picturesque and carefully detailed church, dated 1878, by the architect G T Ewing of Crieff. The church, like most buildings in the village is orientated towards Loch Earn, enjoying views across the E end of the loch. The principal elevation is distinctive within the landscape because of the vivid red bargeboarding and yellow dressings against the dark whinstone of the walls. A well preserved village church, making a decorative contribution to the streetscape and the work of a significant architect working in the Trossachs area in the late 19th century. The church sits to the rear of a long, narrow plot orientated towards the lochside road. The gabled main elevation is a simple composition, with a central gabled porch and flanking windows. An ashlar plaque to the upper central gable is inscribed, 'ERECTED/1878' The gable is topped by a small, square plan bell-cote, on a lead base with slatted timber sides and a piended roof with weather vane. A short 3-bay, rectangular plan nave (with no transepts) is ended by a semi-hexagonal apse, the apse roof piended back to the nave roof ridge. The large nave windows are elliptically arched, whilst the smaller windows of the apse and S wall are tudor-arched. A small vestry sits to the E side of the apse, with doorways into the church and to the S exterior, and a further, lean-to brick-built room sitting to the N. Entry into the church is through a set of timber-panelled double doors, with a segmental-arched fanlight above, into the small ent

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.